Larry Roberts

Costumes rule at Steel City Con

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A number of years ago William Shatner, the captain of the Enterprise, aka James Tiberius Kirk, appeared on a television comedy and faced Starfleet-costumed fans of his series at a convention and told them to get a life. He later backed off on his rant, but the “get a life” statement has long been applied to the obsessed fans of any television show, movie, and computer games who try to dress up like a character, speak in a created language or role play. View The Gallery >

Sea turtles finally return to the water

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Twenty seven Kemp's Ridley sea turtles were being readied to leave the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium en route to Cape Canaveral, Florida to be returned to the Atlantic Ocean. Sixteen turtles from the New England Aquarium, which were brought to Pittsburgh, and seven from Pittsburgh, were transported by zoo personnel to Florida by the Pittsburgh Aviation Animal Rescue Team. View The Gallery >

Vinyl Lives!

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The Independent Record Store Day where the community gathers to eat, drink, buy and talk about records continue in Whistlin’ Willie’s store-within-a-store at Jerry’s Records in Squirrel Hill.

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In Focus: Vinyl records live in Pittsburgh

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“I went down to the sa­cred store, where I’d heard the mu­sic years be­fore….” as one of the lines reads in Don McLean’s “Amer­i­can Pie.” To many young peo­ple, the “sa­cred store” has to be ex­plained, but to most peo­ple who grew up in the 20th cen­tury, it was a com­mon place, the neigh­bor­hood record store, where peo­ple went to hear mu­sic, buy mu­sic and talk about mu­sic. View The Gallery >